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Little Mushroom [小蘑菇 上] by 一十四洲
An Zhe was a mushroom whose lifelong mission was to raise his own spore.One day, he lost his spore.He searched all over the world for a long time before finally seeing a familiar spore on the news.An Zhe desperately knocked on the door of a colonel in the human military.“Hello, Sir. Did your research turn out well? Can I have my son back after the research?”The colonel looked cold... -
Frey by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWARNING: Book 4 is full of love, pain, and redemption. This book contains Domestic Violence and non-consensual sex between spouses. It also has a HEA. This book is part of a series, therefore best if read in order. Geoffrey “Frey” Hartley- soldier, helicopter pilot, boxer, martial arts expert - is the biggest, baddest Gargoyle shapeshifter in the Stone Society...Categorized as:
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Whispers of the Deep by Emma Hamm
One of the many engineers that keeps Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it’s her dream to help it flourish. But then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend. An undine... -
Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDeathly Contagious: Book Two in the Contagium Trilogy After the discovery of a zombie-proof safe house, things are finally looking up for Orissa Penwell. But her chance at happiness is shattered when someone she cares about is shot. Hell bent on revenge, Orissa will do whatever it takes to seek vengeance and get even... -
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The High Lord by Trudi Canavan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 63 ratingsIn the city of Imardin, where those who wield magic wield power, a young street-girl, adopted by the Magician's Guild, finds herself at the centre of a terrible plot that may destroy the entire world . . . Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild and the other novices now treat her with a grudging respect... -
Wanted by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNATALIE A knight in shining loincloth That’s what I’m looking for. I’ve been lusting after the Xarc’n hunters since they landed on Earth, offering to help us fight the alien bugs. These seven feet tall, musclebound warriors are horned, clawed, and fanged—the ultimate protectors. And Rajiv’k is the perfect specimen.Just one problem: I can’t fall in love...Categorized as:
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Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...Categorized as:
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Moonlight Bride by Riley Storm
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe new neighbors have moved in, and they’re a real howl… Chloe goes to warn them of the giant wolf roaming around, fully expecting to go home alone. When she accidentally lets slip that her tractor is broken, however, the handsome new neighbor insists on coming to help. Overwhelmed since leaving the city and her past behind, Chloe accepts his offer...Categorized as:
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Sacrificed to the Monster by Ava Mona
When Grace sees her name flashing on the TV screen, she knows this is the last day of her life. She’s being drafted as this year’s sacrifice to the monster that lurks beneath her world. It will keep her people safe, prevent her sisters from being the one chosen instead, even if it means she’ll be eaten whole once she’s lowered into the ground... -
The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHaving left the Marine Corps, former Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder. Turns out, civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined. Torin is left for dead when pirates attack their spaceship and take Craig prisoner. But "left for dead" has never stopped Torin. Determined to rescue Craig, she calls in her Marines... -
Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSardelle Terushan, sorceress and healer, should be lying low. Magic is forbidden in Iskandia, and magic users are drowned, shot, or otherwise slain. The problem? She's fallen in love with ace fighter pilot and national hero, Colonel Ridge Zirkander, a man whom everybody notices, including the king. It's not long before Sardelle has spies dogging her steps and people trying to blow her up...Categorized as:
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The Heart of Valor by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe third installment in Tanya Huff's action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation seriesGunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine’s marine. She’d survived more deadly encounters—and kept more of her officers and enlisteds alive—than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep the record intact... -
A Battle Lord's Heart by Linda Mooney
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForced to leave Atty behind under the protection of Alta Novis, Yulen D'Jacques takes his troops to his newly acquired compound of Bearinger to defend it against the increasing attacks by Bloods. But when news arrives that Bearinger's walls were breached, Atty knows she must risk the dangerous trek to find out whether or not her husband is still alive... -
Frozen Dawn by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Her people murdered his family. He vowed to destroy them. But now, a curse binds them together.Life in the far northern reaches of the Dominion is unkind, and life under the reign of Morten, the dreaded ruler of the North Wind, is worse...Categorized as:
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading...Categorized as:
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Faithless by Crystal Ash
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLast night, I tried to drink away my feelings for my brother's best friend.Today I’m riding across a dangerous, desert wasteland with him.Like my parents years ago, gods have chosen me for a sacred mission. You’d think the daughter of an infamous motorcycle club would be able to handle it. But when Torrance Knight steps up to make the ride with me, I’m both relieved and dreading the journey...Categorized as:
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Taken by the Cyborg by Tamsin Ley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA cyborg test subject.A female soldier.Passionate secrets that could kill them both. He lost his humanity to save his sister More machine than man, Doug can hack any computer across the galaxy. Syndicorp may own him, but he secretly uses his power to protect his twin and the rebels she leads...Categorized as:
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Diplomacy: A Space Fantasy Romance by May Sage
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a thousand years, being born with magic was a death sentence. Hart and his twin have survived by hiding who they truly were until their time came. It started as a whisper, rumors, but when they find out there truly is a mage uprising, they join the fight, tilting the balance in the mages’ favor. The era of magicless mortals has passed in their multi-planetary kingdom...Categorized as:
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Hunter’s Fate by Lynnea Lee
SANDYI survived the first year of the bugpocalypse safety tucked away in my cabin in the mountains. But now, the raiders have found my home. Not only did they ransack my house, but they also left me an unexpected surprise. There’s an injured Xarc’n hunter passed out in my yard!A storm is brewing, and I can’t leave him outside. He’s bleeding and will lead the bugs right to me...Categorized as:
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Daxion by Elin Wyn
Science Fiction Adventure Romance You’d be a bit of a b*tch, too. If everyone has left you, died on you, and laughed at your dreams, you might have a few issues. And then to have your planet invaded right when you’re about to follow through on the one thing you have left? Done. Amira’s not particularly interested in making friends...Categorized as:
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Vendetta by Emmy Chandler
Having escaped the lab where they were altered with alien DNA, Vaughn Coleman and his fellow super-soldiers answer an ad for a ship capable of getting them far from the prison planet they’ve just fled. Meshach Larsen, autocrat of a notorious isolationist planet, is willing to accept payment in services rendered, rather than credits... -
1632 by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy... -
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe first book in Tanya Huff’s action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation seriesStaff Sergeant Torin Kerr was a battle-hardened professional. So when she and her platoon were yanked from a well-deserved leave for what was supposed to be “easy” duty as the honor guard for a diplomatic mission to the non-Confederation world of the Silsviss, she was ready for anything... -
Ragoru by SJ Sanders
Hundreds of years before RedCivilization is failing in a steady decline. In a last-ditch effort to save themselves, humanity has turned to trying to understand their world even as they seek to protect themselves from the monsters within it... -
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Revolution by Kali Argent
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy all rights, Helios shifter Sion Jabari shouldn’t be on Xenthian. According to his own mother, he shouldn’t even be alive. His life hasn’t been an easy one, and after witnessing how greed and the desire for power can corrupt something as pure as love, he wants no part of it. When he takes a companion, he swears it will be for all the right reasons, and more importantly, it will be his choice... -
Warrior Wench by Marie Andreas
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsVaslisha Tor Dain is a mercenary starship captain with a few simple rules: A good ship is better than a great man, in case of confusion always err on the side of blowing someone's head off, and never fall for a telepath or a member of her crew. All of those are about to bite her in the ass...Categorized as:
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Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose
“I’m your master. When I give you an order, you obey.” Talia didn’t escape her slave master only to be shackled again. Not even by a sexy male built of solid muscle who does wicked things with his fingers and tongue. Not even one of her own species who says he knows her father--the father she doesn’t remember...Categorized as:
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The Battle Lord's Lady by Linda Mooney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThree hundred years in the future, mankind still is trying to survive the Great Collision that changed the earth forever. People live in pockets of civilization called compounds, battling the elements and the mutations which have developed over the centuries, trying to live and survive day by day. Yulen D’Jacques is the Battle Lord of Alta Novis...Categorized as:
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The Recruit by Susan Kyle, Diana Palmer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThree years after the unprovoked attack on a peaceful colony, the war between the Rojok dynasty and the Tri-Galaxy Fleet rages on. Born of that war is the Morcai Battalion, a fleet comprised of Centaurians and humans�the first collaboration of its kind and a step toward an intergalactic alliance... -
Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the first book in the Ambasadora science fiction adventure series. This space thriller contains elements of space opera, science fiction romance, cyberpunk, military science fiction, a galactic empire, anthropological science fiction, and dystopian society. If everyone told you love wasn't real, would you still be willing to die for it? Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are... -
Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvalon Redding has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by 'The Realm' for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne... -
Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Final Installment to: The Fire Mage Trilogy. Avalon has made a lot of dangerous enemies. The Realm has issued a bounty on the infamous Fire-Mage's head, labelling her leader of the human-alliance, and traitor to Mage-kind. Soon, strangers begin to recognize Avalon after seeing her wanted poster in the streets, and seek to earn the cash reward for her capture... -
2288 A.D. - Alternate Dimensions by Renee Van Dyke, Glenn Van Dyke
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPRE-SALE PRICE - Plus 2 FREE Gifts! --- "THE AMAZING SEQUEL to the blockbuster story of post-apocalyptic survival, time travel, love, sacrifice and redemption ... is here!" Kirkus - 2288 A.D. is the 2nd book of the #1 BEST SELLING, 'The Ashlyn Chronicles' series. The first novel 2287 A.D., is a Kindle ALL-STAR (TOP 100 AMAZON BOOK) that has SOLD over 100,000 copies in its first year...Categorized as:
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Artifice by Alex Woolfson, Winona Nelson
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArtifice is about Deacon, a prototype android soldier so advanced he is referred to as an "artificial person." On one of his first missions, Deacon was ordered by his corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who knew too much—and he has failed spectacularly. Not only did he let one of the targets live, he attacked the team sent to retrieve him...Categorized as:
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After the End by Bonnie Dee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe end of the world is only the beginning. Zombies are on the loose and the world is falling apart. In the tradition of apocalyptic novels such as Stephen King’s THE STAND, a group of strangers on a Manhattan subway are brought together in the name of survival...Categorized as:
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Tangled Web by Crista McHugh
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe deadliest assassin in the empire just got too close to her target… Azurha, a former slave turned deadliest assassin in the empire, has just been offered the ultimate challenge—seduce, then murder the new Emperor. But Titus is not the tyrant his forefathers were, and his radical ideas might be the glimmer of hope the empire needs...Categorized as:
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The Scarlet Empress by Susan Grant
The Kingdom of Asia... Shot down over Korea, USAF fighter pilot Cameron "Scarlet" Tucker is put in bio-stasis. She wakes 170 years later. Her wingmate and best friend also survived: Now the "legendary" Banzai Maguire, Bree is being held for treason in the country that was once her beloved United States. Cam has problems of her own—big problems...Categorized as:
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The Phantom of the Earth by Raeden Zen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRANSHUMAN SPECIES... TO AVERT EXTINCTION AND RETURN TO THE SURFACE ... WILL BE DECIDED UNDERGROUND. In the Great Commonwealth of Beimeni, a subterranean civilization in North America, expansion long ago gave way to peace and prosperity in the face of the history's most devastating plague...Categorized as:
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The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"You cannot know what light is if you have not experienced darkness" Ava and her people have been exiled to the planet Poseidon for reasons she can't fathom. Upon meeting a boy from a different sector, her life turns into a beautiful chaos... -
Dragons & Dirigibles by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBook seven of The Gaslight Chronicles When airship engineer Melody McKay's dirigible explodes and plunges her into the yard of a gothic manor, she suspects foul play. With her ankle injured--an indignity far too feminine for her taste--she resolves to crack the mystery while in the care of Victor Arrington, the stuffy-yet-disarming Earl of Blackwell...Categorized as:
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Bitter Harvest by Kim Knox
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's 2050, and humans are an endangered species. Lieutenant Robert Sutton has survived the collapse of civilization by luck, his wits, and a chance mutation that makes him immune to the nano-virus that has wiped out millions. Now, his compound of survivors is surrounded by the infected, who are driven by the need to spread the contagion through sex. It is only a matter of time before they attack...Categorized as:
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Stars Across Time by Ruby Lionsdrake
Can love take root in the cracks of time? Air Force pilot Andromeda “Andie” Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead, she’s stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. One of her kidnappers, a man named Mace, goes out of his way to protect her from the other slavers, but she’s not about to trust him...Categorized as:
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Assassin's Gambit by Amy Raby
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsVitala Salonius, champion of the warlike game of Caturanga, is as deadly as she is beautiful. She’s a trained assassin for the resistance, and her true play is for ultimate power. Using her charm and wit, she plans to seduce her way into the emperor’s bed and deal him one final, fatal blow, sparking a battle of succession that could change the face of the empire... -
Starbreaker by Amanda Bouchet
THEY NEVER WANTED TO BE HEROESCaptain Tess Bailey and Shade Ganavan are still the galaxy's Most Wanted, and with revolution in the wind and the universe on the brink of catastrophic war, the situation couldn't be more desperate...Categorized as:
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Promise of Darkness by Bec McMaster
Princess. Tribute. Sacrifice. Is she the one prophesied to unite two warring Fae courts? Or the one bound to destroy them? In a realm ruled by magic, the ruthless Queen of Thorns is determined to destroy her nemesis, the cursed Prince of Evernight...
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